List of Computer Scientists - A

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• Wil van der Aalst – business process management, process mining, Petri nets
• Hal Abelson – intersection of computing and teaching
• Serge Abiteboul – database theory
• Samson Abramsky – game semantics
• Leonard Adleman – RSA, DNA computing
• Manindra Agrawal – polynomial-time primality testing
• Luis von Ahn – human-based computation
• Alfred Aho – compilers book, the 'a' in AWK
• Frances E. Allen – compiler optimization
• Gene Amdahl – supercomputer developer, founder of Amdahl Corporation
• A. Annerl – multidimensional processing, computational complexity theory
• Andrew Appel – compilers text books
• Bruce Arden – programming language compilers (GAT, MAD), virtual memory architecture, MTS
• Sanjeev Arora – PCP theorem
• John Vincent Atanasoff – computer pioneer
• Ali Aydar – computer scientist and CEO of Sporcle